Improvement in rttffling-attachment for sewing-machines



' ,1. 0. FAIRBAIRN.

Ruffling Attachment for Sewing Machines. No. 94,299. Patented Aug. 31,1869.

iiinitml $121M JOHN. G. FAIRBAIRN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN LettersPatent No. 94,299, dated August 31, 1869.

IMFROVEMEN'I IN RUFILINGI-ATTACHMENT ron snwi G-MAcHINes.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J 01m 0. FAIRBAIRN, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee, and State of others'skilled in the art to make and use thesame,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in rufilers, wherebyit isdesigned to provide an improved r'ufilingdevice, adapted to the Howe-andother sewing-ma chines, so arranged, that by it ruffling may be donewithout changing the thread-tension adjusted when for ordinary sewing,as is required to be done with the rufiling-deviccs now in use.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved rutfier, as applied to asewing-machine, also showing the application to the work, and

Figure 2 represents an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. v

A represents the body of the instrument, consisting of a plate of thinmetal, adapted to be attached by a set-screw to the table of themachine, and having at one end a wide tongue, B, and a narrow tongue, 0,with a narrow slot between them;also, another narrow tongue, D, fastenedbeyond the end of the slot to the upper surface of the said plate, sothat its free end projects-ever the wide tongue, with one edge parallelwith the edge of the said wide tongue, forming the wall of the slot.

Erepresentsanother tongue, projecting from the under side of the widetongue B, at right angles thereto, and parallel with the seam to beformed.

1 represents a bridge of wire, serving as a guide for the work, and oneend projects through the plate, as shown at G, serving as a stud to staythe plate, by taking into a hole in the table.

H represents, in red, the strip to be ruffled. It is fed over the tongue0, under the wide tongueB, and over the feeder, whereby it is ruffled asit is shoved along past the needle, working through the notch I.

K represents the hand to he sewed on, which is fed over the tongues Gand B, and under the tongue D, and is prevented by the wide tongue Bfrom coming in contact with the feeder. I

'When the rufller 18 attached to the machine, and the cloth to beruffled, and the band or strip to which it is to be sewed, are properlyadjusted, the presserfoot of the machine is brought down, and rests uponthe tongue E, which latter prevents the teed from coming in contact withthe band or upper strip of cloth.

.As the feed operated, it takes hold upon the under strip H, and movesit along, until the ratchet or feed has moved nearly its entiredistance, without stirring the band K but as the feed passes from underthe tongue E, it operates upon both pieces of the cloth, moving themtogether the distance of a stitch. At the same time, the tongue E restsbetween the two pieces of cloth, with its inner edge directly alongsideof the seam, and thus operates as a guide, to keep the cloth in a directline; the operator drawing the seam over against the inner edge of thetongue E, and keeping it there as it proceeds.

It is obvious that the tongue E, instead of being soldered to the partB, may be made solid with B, by simply cutting the latter in such a formas to leave E projecting from the side thereof, at the proper point.

I am aware that variousstyles of rufliers have heretofore been made ofplates of metal arranged somewhat similar to mine, as shown by vpatentNo. 83,592; but none have been made with the projecting guide E.

Having thus described my invention.

Whatl claim, is-

A rufiler for sewingmachines, consisting of the plates B, (hand I), withthe guideE connected to the plate 13, and serving to guide the material,by hearing against the seam, all arranged as herein described.

JNO. O. FAIRBAIRN.

Witnesses:

H. P. EnLIs,

ROBT. BRIMER.

